Yeah. If they truly wanted to "update" the photos for PR purposes (??) why not do it *right*. Shooting out of a fighter plane window (while piloting said plane at only 1000' over a densely populated area) and including either a shadow or a portion of the fighter plane (lower right corner) in the picture is $328,000+ worth of amateur photography.

Actual AF-1 sometimes flies with an escort of fighter planes. That happened during the Cold War and for a year or so after 9/11. Does in international airspace..

Much of the flap was just the "traumatized, perpetual Victims" of NYC, (home of the Terrorist Rights lawyers)...acting out.

Of course, the guy who authorized it, but then demanded that cops and Gov't officials keep it "ultrasecret" - deserves to have his head roll.

But the bluer than blue NYC whiners need to get over themselves. Lots of other people made of sterner stuff, it seems, have been bombed from planes or had planes crash into them without this unseemly NYC panic and perpetual victimhood whine-fest.

That's a poorly composed photograph. Positioning Liberty Island below the plane in that manner makes it look like the plane is a shitting bird and that the island is the pile of shit. Also the color is murky and excepting the Statue of Liberty, the scenery is a depressingly industrial swath of New Jersey. And the garbage barges or whatever they are in the harbor don't add any majesty to the photograph. The supergenius Obama kidz couldn't remove those with their mad Photoshop skillz? And what is the white streak in the upper right of the photograph, near the nose of the plane? It looks like reflection from shooting through a window.

Mr. Barely's ability to induce panic has now transcended his mere ideology. Now his minions will start falling on their swords not because they thought they've made a mistake but because they have now lost their upward mobility and would rather take their chances in the private sector. Bravo, President Incompetent. Your leadership skills are underwhelming.

I already Photoshopped Pelosi and her plane, and Gore with his plane, suffering the Gore Effect™ off to Stockholm to receive his Nobel on Global Climate Change™ having already picked up an Oscar for his film on Global Warming™. I never found Bush funny enough to Photoshop with planes, besides, he already has his own phalanx of satirists.

I've convinced myself there must be more than just one photo. This is just a bone tossed to us dogs to have our rip then shut up. A pacifier, if you like. It would be stupid to take just one photo and more stupid to think otherwise. I'd pay for the photo of NYers fleeing their offices with the shadow of a plane. Now there's a Photoshop idea.

Jim Howard, the tale of the Tuskegee Airmen should be told early and often, but two questions: First, why would they need this picture near NYC? In fact, why not take a picture like Palladian’s Photoshop, near Mt. Rushmore? Second, and more importantly, shouldn’t George Lucas be paying for it?

There was a great film about the Tuskegee Airmen made in 1995, with Laurence Fishbourne, Andre Braugher, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. I don’t think much of George Lucas as a director, but I will probably see “Red Tails.”